With tax season approaching, many small business owners are looking for a more convenient way to file their corporate taxes. For that reason, most states have adopted e-filing services, hoping that these less resource-intensive processes will lead to lar...

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Posted: Mar 13th, 2012

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will do a lot to upend the U.S. healthcare system, the most notable benefit of which will be to provide coverage to an additional 30 million Americans. But how will it affect small business owners and e...

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Posted: Feb 13th, 2012

The pace of the U.S. economic recovery will pick up next year, although growth will remain tepid for some time to come.

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Posted: Dec 27th, 2011

When it comes to growth within the small business sector, owners may run off a variety of reasons why markets have stalled and rendered their expansion efforts a challenge.Most analysts point to hiring in the sector as one of the leading economic problem...

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Posted: Nov 23rd, 2011

Optimism among U.S. small businesses nudged upward in October, although conditions remain too bleak to offer an otherwise hopeful forecast for the economy. The National Federation of Independent Business' Small Business Optimism Index increased 1.3 p...

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Posted: Nov 8th, 2011

Small businesses, creators of roughly two-thirds of all new jobs, added 30,000 positions in October, according to the latest Small Business Employment Index from Intuit. This figure marks a 0.14 increase over the month before and a 1.17 percent hike from...

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Posted: Nov 1st, 2011

As if weak consumer spending, price inflation and a struggling credit market weren’t enough, small businesses have been forced to grapple with rising energy costs as well. According to new research from the National Small Business Association, such...

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Posted: Oct 24th, 2011

Facebook, Twitter and Google are joining American Express in promoting this year's Small Business Saturday. The date, the Saturday after Thanksgiving (November 26), is mashed between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and follows a similar consumerist et...

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Posted: Oct 11th, 2011

Small businesses have decaying confidence in the U.S. economy, according to a new survey from PNC Financial Services Group.Analysts have been hard-pressed to find hopeful prospects for U.S. or European markets in recent months. Hopes for improvements hav...

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Posted: Oct 7th, 2011

Taxpayers and business owners in the state of Texas may face a new penalty fee for late tax filings, as the state comptroller's office seeks to add new revenue streams in light of considerable budget challenges.A report from the office of Texas compt...

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Posted: Oct 6th, 2011

Ever wonder how vital the internet is to society? Well, according to the newest generation of working professionals, it's about as important as food and shelter.As the results of a survey released this week by Cisco found, one in three college studen...

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Posted: Sep 21st, 2011